Yasmin Gunaratnam

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Here's the CfP for a SI on solidarity that I am co-editing with Clare Hemmings.Details below

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Love, creativity and abolition in and beyond academia - CRASSH Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

two-days of love as a creative politically-engaged practice 'in the wake of contemporary social and student freedom movements'

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48045/

Our new article is out!

Stuart Hall helps us to examine how evidence & expertise are used to help race slide into the mainstream in policies on integration & migration in Sweden & the UK

Protests to be held against Oxford Union for hosting controversial politician Protests have been organised against the Oxford Union for hosting a controversial politician.

I suppose this is not really surprising, but disappointing that Oxford union are hosting Namal Rajapaksa tomorrow, whose family oversaw terror & war crimes in Sri Lanka against Tamils. His visit to the Cambridge union has been cancelled www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2587525...

The Underground Sea by John Berger, Tom Overton, Matthew Harle - Canongate Books The Underground Sea by John Berger, Tom Overton, Matthew Harle - hardback (9781805302995) published by Canongate. A succinct, urgent and never-before seen collection of Berger’s writing on mineworkers...

Reading this new collection of John Berger's writing on miners & strikes (ed Overton & Harle). Includes an article written by JB in 1968 for the New Statesmen 'The nature of mass demonstrations' on prefigurative politics as a rehearsal of revolutionary consciousness
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Shaking up the sector: an interview with Art Workers for Palestine Scotland - Red Pepper A coalition of art workers are refusing to let the Scottish Arts sector stay silent on Palestine, an organiser tells Red Pepper

"It’s [the cultural boycott] about manifesting a united cultural front against genocide and imperialism"

A coalition of artists, gallery employees, and other culture industry workers are refusing to let the Scottish Arts sector stay silent on Palestine, an organiser tells Red Pepper

SISP Statements SISP letter to the British Sociological Association 18th September 2025 On the 18th September 2025, the SISP collective sent the letter below to the President of the BSA (Professor Rachel Brooks) a…

Are you are member of the British Sociological Association? Going to the annual conference? Take a look at the demands that have been made on the BSA to turn up the volume on #BDS

socispal.wordpress.com/sisp-stateme...

A wonderful historical account if you want to know about the significance of US imperialism in Cuba today & also it's Latin American context 'Without Cuba, then, no Venezuela and without Venezuela, no Bolivia, no Ecuador, and no rebirth of Sandinista Nicaragua'

Death in Gaza - 'taking all information into consideration, the actual death count (as of June 2025) is likely between 326,544 and 575,259 deaths'

biosphere.wilmarigl.de/en/?p=5002

The series features lectures, discussions, panels and documentaries with academics and experts who explore the historical, political, social, and cultural dimensions of the Arab-Israeli conflict

www.middleeast.ugent.be/en/newsandev...

You can donate through the link in this article via Crowd Justice, which goes straight to the lawyers

The Asian Gang Revisited: Race, Youth Culture, Policing & Community Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power and Stuart Hall Archive Project Online Panel Event

The Asian Gang Revisited: Race, Youth Culture, Policing & Community

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My People Shall Live: Autobiography of a Revolutionary … The autobiography of a revolutionary Leila Khaled. "The…

'Who's that?'

When I went into @waterstones.bsky.social in #oxford this afternoon to try & get a copy of Leila Khaled's autobiography

😭

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Keir Starmer’s Weakened Position Opens the Door for the Left Britain’s Labour prime minister is severely wounded by his disastrous appointment of a Jeffrey Epstein–associated US ambassador and could soon be ousted. But the party needs more than a makeover.

This is good on the sway of unaccountable elites, inc
Jamie Dimon CEO of JPMorgan who on Mandelson's advice 'mildly threatened' Chancellor Alastair Darling on plans to tax bankers’ bonuses. Also Starmer's awarding of an untended £240 mil contract to Palantir

jacobin.com/2026/02/star...

Cover of Promises Beyond Memory: Archives, Art, and the Afterlives of Violence in Latin America by Vikki Bell. The upper part of the design features a faded image of two people with their eyes closed, flanking another image of a gold altar with a woman's face superimposed on it. The title is below the image in large, gold serif font, and the subtitle and author's name in smaller white text on the right side.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Promises Beyond Memory" by Vikki Bell, which examines how archives of contemporary political violence in South America create new possibilities for circulating stories of violence to defend against future attempts to rewrite the past. buff.ly/qZp8Um0

Is that the resident of Monaco Sir Jim Ratcliffe?

Be Collegial, Or Else How a word that once meant self-governance in the profession came to mean compliance

This is a great read on the manipulation of the collegial

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Been waiting for this analysis & it requires re-readings. The citations alone stage 🔥 refusals

'Many of the models of loss that circulate inside and outside the academy do not adequately contend with the kinds of material, psychic, durational devastation inflicted through colonial brutality..'

New #podcast 📻 Researcher+organizer Omar Jabary recounts how #infrastructures are constitutive of the logics of settler colonialism, as well as a vital terrain for land-based practices of anti-colonial resistance. rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/... Roads, electricity, water systems+ as sites of struggle.

Join RPM editors at Declassified UK’s first summit ‘Challenging the War Machine’ at EarTH in London on Saturday 31st January 2026. For anyone interested in understanding the structures and systems that underpin the drive to war, and how we challenge it.

secure.declassifieduk.org/page/180663/...

Come along tomorrow (weds) for a sociological convo about the past year with @aaronwinter.bsky.social, Gholam Khiabany & me, chaired by @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social

I've been thinking about sociology as mutual aid. Maybe bring your whistles?

The Sociological Review Journal Vol 74 Issue 1 with contributions from Yasmin Gunaratnam Esperança Bielsa Rin Ushiyama Nathan Manning Jacob Lypp Emma Dowling Sara Eldén Zuzana Uhde Kate Reed and Anna Balazs Gareth M. Thomas Giulia Giorgi Emma Jackson and Agata Lisiak https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/74/1

OUT NOW: the first 2026 issue of The Sociological Review journal.

Featuring 12 new papers, of which 8 are open access, on subjects ranging from disability to citizenship, Gaza to Japan, care work to internet memes, and from death and bureaucracy to walking with Doreen Massey.

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Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (01/22/26) Podcast Episode · Death Panel · 22/01/2026 · 1h 1m

A gem of a conversation on persistence in organisaing @deathpanel.bsky.social

Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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Rodney King

Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.

Do respond to the government's consultation on these nasty proposals. Making settlement harder & longer undermines its own rhetoric on integration & use time to discipline & increase vulnerability

Guidance below to help you respond to the consultation

www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

Safe Haven Fellowship | NIAS NIAS Safe Haven Fellowships support scholars at risk by offering them temporary relocation and enabling them to continue their work.

Safe Haven Fellowship
For scholars, writers, artists and journalists at risk due to conflict or war
5 month fellowship to pursue your individual research project
Subsidised housing
Stipend
Reimbursement both outward and return travel
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ICE, resistance, and 'capitalism without humans' w/ Sarah Jaffe Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 01/20/2026 · 59m

📢 NEW EPISODE 📢 - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the history of organising and protest in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to those efforts). We also talked about the entwinement of the tech industry with ICE and the surveillance state:

Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019.

Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:

Breaking: Heba, Kamran, Lewie end hunger strikes after up to 73 days Hebra Muraisi (73 days), Kamran Ahmed (65) and Lewie C have ended their hunger strikes, with several close to death.

'The decision to end their hunger strikes came as it was revealed that Elbit Systems UK was denied a vital £2 billion army training contract with the Ministry of Defence, a key demand of the hunger strikers'

www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...